March 2021 and the Com- Spring Lawn Pollinators for Your Ikebana for Every Wsouth End of Main City Park Munity Reader Board Is 85% Complete

FRIENDS OF Gresham Japanese Garden March PO Box 673 Boring, OR 97009 Tsuru Soars Friends of the Gresham Japanese Garden Newsletter

Who Are We, and Where Are We?

riends of the Gresham Japanese Garden are a group of volunteers Fwho have came together to “rebirth” the south end of Main City Park. At the forefront of this rebirth is Jim Card, a retired landscaper. This year they celebrate their 10th year as stewards for the City, but the story really began in the ‘70s. Efforts to build a Japanese Garden were undertaken by the Japanese Ameri- can Citizens League after a bond was Pollinator Garden passed in 1969 to build Main City Park, PHOTOGRAPHER’S PICK widen Powell Blvd, and reroute John- Coming This Spring son Creek. JACL named the island Tsuru This photo was taken in mid January (pronounced Sue Do) Island. Tsuru means developed two more spaces south of but it could have been taken at any time ur newest addition to the Japa- once established here but due to loss during the spring rainy season. crane in Japanese. Tsuru Island; Ebetsu Plaza and Ambleside Our Mission nese Garden will be a pollinator of milkweed we no longer can support Many of the original builders from JACL, Annex, two public gathering areas com- The Gresham Japanese Garden garden in the Ambleside their life cycles. These native plants will To me it seems the lantern, sitting Ed Fugi and Kaz Tamura have passed and plete with benches and picnic tables. provides a place of culture, beauty and O quietly, has a view of interesting Annex behind where our picnic tables provide a richer supply of nectar for all the Tsuru Island fell into disarray. Behind the scenes is our Greenhouse learning for all who enter. The Friends reflections in a private pool. The pebbles are located and the new community pollinators. in the background may have formed In 2011, Tomiko Takachi, first cousin to where we conduct our educational of Gresham Japanese Garden bear reader board. All of these native plants are currently a small waterfall in heavy rain but it is an original JACL member, contacted Jim Floriculture classes for students and is responsibility to the city of Gresham, The pollinator garden will be comprised being cultivated in our greenhouse as now quiet. The grass in disarray, similar Card to “look” at repairing Tsuru Island. our test garden. to build upon the Japanese American to one’s hair upon waking, is a bit like of native host plants for two specific well as some non-native favorites that Be careful what you “look” at. The rebirth If anyone is interested in volunteering, legacy in the community. We foster nature waking after the winter. butterflies; the Monarch and the Painted pollinators love. is flourishing under Jim Card’s leader- you can find them working away every sustainability through leadership, — Bill Peterson Lady. Habitat for pollinators is necessary If you want to learn more about cre- ship. Saturday from 9am - noon. Contact stewardship, education if we want to ensure their future. The ating your own pollinator garden, join After Tsuru Island was completed, Jim [email protected] for and volunteerism. Monarch butterfly, for example, was Deb’s free class coming in May. more info. Upcoming Workshops and Free Classes Community Reader Board On the Horizon

Sat, April 10 Tuesday, May 11 Tuesday, May 4 ith the development of Tsuru needs to be built. 1-3pm 6:00-7:30pm 1-3pm Island and Ebetsu Plaza, the Here we are March 2021 and the Com- Spring Lawn Pollinators for Your Ikebana for Every Wsouth end of Main City Park munity Reader Board is 85% complete. Maintenance Yard Season experiences a lot of tra c. Two years Nick Bacon, the Eagle Scout with the Getting green, healthy Deb Peters will take us Instructor Nana Bellerud will ago Jim Card came up with the idea to assistance of his father from Lovett grass is not easy without some TLC. This Spring’s through this free class in cover the basic concept, tech- build a reader board. Coincidentally, the Construction and other volunteers lawn maintenance class will cover keeping your the Garden’s greenhouse for a discussion on niques, tools and equipment, city was dismantling a covered areas on helping, Nick has done a super job on lawn healthy and green throughout the summer native host plants for butter ies and how to and plant care for ikebana (Japanese oral art.) months in the northwest weather. It will also create a pollinator yard. Participants will make 1 basic style and 1 freestyle the Springwater Trail and he asked if we the sign. The gables and beams are the cover how to get moss out, and what blend of Learn where and how to plant milkweed and arrangement with emphasis on seasonal themes. could have the structure. Of course, the reclaimed wood, and the metal roof and Nick Bacon at work building the Community fertilizer works best for lawns, how to apply, an other plants to attract monarch butter ies. Starter kits are available for purchase or partici- scrappers that we are at the Garden, we pine underlayment is new. Reader Board for his Eagle Scout project. overview of sprinkler systems and how to water Butter ies aren’t the only pollinators. Learn about pants may bring their own vases. said, “now we can use the materials to The Reader Board is 8 ft x 4 ft double your lawn and your plants. FREE keeping mason bees too. FREE $55.00 - Includes instruction and plant material. build the Community Reader Board.” sided. Half of the sign is for you to post Like all projects, they nd their space your events, lost dog, or whatever you and time to get done and stu hap- desire—except politics and religion. The Tuesday, April 20 Third Saturday of each Thursday, May 6 pens for a reason. With this reclaimed other half of the sign will be devoted to 6:30-8:00pm Month, 1-3pm 2-3:30pm structure available, we got a call from a Garden and City news. Postings will be Organic Vegetable The Art of Bonsai Hanging Baskets young man asking if we have a project taken down at the end of each month. Gardening Learn how to create your own Class for him to earn his Eagle Scout badge. As We’re thrilled to o er this amenity to our Jim Buck, an avid gar- Bonsai arrangement. Each month Take a few hours out of you can imagine I was elated to tell him community. dener since childhood will be a di erent project to be your day to make your own hanging basket of has a strong interest in completed in class to take home. about the Community Reader Board that spring owers at Gresham Japanese Garden’s native plants and their uses by indigenous tribes. Connect with nature and experience the stress- greenhouse. Cherié with Cedarglen Floral will In this class Jim will cover how to improve your relieving bene ts of this hobby. guide you in creating a beautiful arrangement. garden’s health and our environment by growing $35.00 - Include instruction and all material. Cost - $22.00 organically. The class will include soil preparation, 2021 Summer Cultural Series planting succession tips, companion planting, THIRD THURSDAY BONSAI CLASS IS FULL. Gift certi cates available avoiding diseases, di erent types of composting, at Main City Park and elements of permaculture. FREE.

ZOOM Tuesday, April 6 Classes and workshops are in person. Registration is mandatory to keep JUNE 5 OPTION 6:30-8:00pm class size small. Register at GreshamJapaneseGarden.org Sho-Art (Calligraphy) Live Performances Art of Bonsai Demonstrations

Dancing Cranes JUNE 19 Shinobue (Bamboo Flute) Performances GARDENER’S TIP betsu Plaza’s newest edition, Ikebana (Floral Arrangement) Demonstrations Dancing Cranes. Huge thank you to Slugs are coming out in force after a Alyson Huntting for this magni - very damp winter season. Sluggo® is E JULY 10 cent Rip Caswell sculpture she donated one product that helps control slugs and Koto-Kai (Japanese Harp) Performances is not toxic to other wildlife. It provides to the city of Gresham. nutrients to the soil since it is composed Alyson spends numerous hours at Origami for All Ages and Abilities only of iron phosphate. Slugs have the Garden taking care of plants in the favorite plants such as hyacinth and JULY 24 narcissus blossoms, lily, etc. You can pick greenhouse, weeding, and picking up them o just after dusk and dispatch garbage, to name a few. Koto-Kai (Japanese Harp) Performances Sponsored by Arts and Cultural them saving the cost of the chemical The Garden is very fortunate to have Ikebana (Floral Arrangement) Demonstrations Assistance Grant products. Slugs are cannibalistic and will Alyson as a dedicated citizen of Gresham eat the remains of dead slugs so putting them in a small pile will bait your next and a garden volunteer. AUGUST 7 night’s culprits. Takohachi’s Q (Drums) Performances — Jim Buck Art of Bonsai Demonstrations Upcoming Workshops and Free Classes Community Reader Board On the Horizon

Sat, April 10 Tuesday, May 11 Tuesday, May 4 ith the development of Tsuru needs to be built. 1-3pm 6:00-7:30pm 1-3pm Island and Ebetsu Plaza, the Here we are March 2021 and the Com- Spring Lawn Pollinators for Your Ikebana for Every Wsouth end of Main City Park munity Reader Board is 85% complete. Maintenance Yard Season experiences a lot of traffic. Two years Nick Bacon, the Eagle Scout with the Getting green, healthy Deb Peters will take us Instructor Nana Bellerud will ago Jim Card came up with the idea to assistance of his father from Lovett grass is not easy without some TLC. This Spring’s through this free class in cover the basic concept, tech- build a reader board. Coincidentally, the Construction and other volunteers lawn maintenance class will cover keeping your the Garden’s greenhouse for a discussion on niques, tools and equipment, city was dismantling a covered areas on helping, Nick has done a super job on lawn healthy and green throughout the summer native host plants for butterflies and how to and plant care for ikebana (Japanese floral art.) months in the northwest weather. It will also create a pollinator yard. Participants will make 1 basic style and 1 freestyle the Springwater Trail and he asked if we the sign. The gables and beams are the cover how to get moss out, and what blend of Learn where and how to plant milkweed and arrangement with emphasis on seasonal themes. could have the structure. Of course, the reclaimed wood, and the metal roof and Nick Bacon at work building the Community fertilizer works best for lawns, how to apply, an other plants to attract monarch butterflies. Starter kits are available for purchase or partici- scrappers that we are at the Garden, we pine underlayment is new. Reader Board for his Eagle Scout project. overview of sprinkler systems and how to water Butterflies aren’t the only pollinators. Learn about pants may bring their own vases. said, “now we can use the materials to The Reader Board is 8 ft x 4 ft double your lawn and your plants. FREE keeping mason bees too. FREE $55.00 - Includes instruction and plant material. build the Community Reader Board.” sided. Half of the sign is for you to post Like all projects, they find their space your events, lost dog, or whatever you and time to get done and stuff hap- desire—except politics and religion. The Tuesday, April 20 Third Saturday of each Thursday, May 6 pens for a reason. With this reclaimed other half of the sign will be devoted to 6:30-8:00pm Month, 1-3pm 2-3:30pm structure available, we got a call from a Garden and City news. Postings will be Hanging Baskets Organic Vegetable The Art of Bonsai young man asking if we have a project taken down at the end of each month. Gardening Learn how to create your own Class for him to earn his Eagle Scout badge. As We’re thrilled to offer this amenity to our Bonsai arrangement. Each month Jim Buck, an avid garden- Take a few hours out of will be a different project to be you can imagine I was elated to tell him community. er since childhood has a your day to make your own hanging basket of completed in class to take home. about the Community Reader Board that strong interest in native spring flowers at Gresham Japanese Garden’s Connect with nature and experience the stress- plants and their uses by indigenous tribes. In greenhouse. Cherié with Cedarglen Floral will relieving benefits of this hobby. this class Jim will cover how to iTHEmprove your guide you in creating a beautiful arrangement. $35.00 - Include instruction and all material. garden’s health and our environment by growing Cost - $22.00 organically. The class will include soil preparation, 2021 Summer Cultural Series planting succession tips, companion planting, THIRD THURSDAY BONSAI CLASS IS FULL. Gift certificates available avoiding diseases, different types of composting, at Main City Park and elements of permaculture. FREE.

Dancing Cranes JUNE 19 Shinobue (Bamboo Flute) Performances GARDENER’S TIP betsu Plaza’s newest edition, Ikebana (Floral Arrangement) Demonstrations Dancing Cranes. Huge thank you to Slugs are coming out in force after a Alyson Huntting for this magnifi- very damp winter season. Sluggo® is E JULY 10 cent Rip Caswell sculpture she donated one product that helps control slugs and Koto-Kai (Japanese Harp) Performances is not toxic to other wildlife. It provides to the city of Gresham. nutrients to the soil since it is composed Alyson spends numerous hours at Origami for All Ages and Abilities only of iron phosphate. Slugs have the Garden taking care of plants in the favorite plants such as hyacinth and JULY 24 narcissus blossoms, lily, etc. You can pick greenhouse, weeding, and picking up them off just after dusk and dispatch garbage, to name a few. Koto-Kai (Japanese Harp) Performances Sponsored by Arts and Cultural them saving the cost of the chemical The Garden is very fortunate to have Ikebana (Floral Arrangement) Demonstrations Assistance Grant products. Slugs are cannibalistic and will Alyson as a dedicated citizen of Gresham eat the remains of dead slugs so putting them in a small pile will bait your next and a garden volunteer. AUGUST 7 night’s culprits. Takohachi’s Q (Drums) Performances — Jim Buck Art of Bonsai Demonstrations FRIENDS OF Gresham Japanese Garden March PO Box 673 Boring, OR 97009 Tsuru Soars Friends of the Gresham Japanese Garden Newsletter

Who Are We, and Where Are We?

riends of the Gresham Japanese Garden are a group of volunteers Fwho have come together to “rebirth” the south end of Main City Park. At the forefront of this rebirth is Jim Card, a retired landscaper. This year they celebrate their 10th year as stewards for the City, but the story really began in the ‘70s. E orts to build a Japanese Garden were undertaken by the Japanese Ameri- can Citizens League after a bond was Pollinator Garden passed in 1969 to build Main City Park, PHOTOGRAPHER’S PICK widen Powell Blvd, and reroute John- Coming This Spring son Creek. JACL named the island Tsuru This photo was taken in mid January (pronounced Sue Do) Island. Tsuru means developed two more spaces south of but it could have been taken at any time ur newest addition to the Japa- once established here but due to loss during the spring rainy season. crane in Japanese. Tsuru Island; Ebetsu Plaza and Ambleside Our Mission nese Garden will be a pollinator of milkweed we no longer can support Many of the original builders from JACL, Annex, two public gathering areas com- The Gresham Japanese Garden garden in the Ambleside their life cycles. These native plants will To me it seems the lantern, sitting Ed Fuji and Kaz Tamura have passed and plete with benches and picnic tables. provides a place of culture, beauty and O quietly, has a view of interesting Annex behind where our picnic tables provide a richer supply of nectar for all the Tsuru Island fell into disarray. Behind the scenes is our Greenhouse learning for all who enter. The Friends re ections in a private pool. The pebbles are located and the new community pollinators. in the background may have formed In 2011, Tomiko Takeuchi, rst cousin to where we conduct our educational of Gresham Japanese Garden bear reader board. All of these native plants are currently a small waterfall in heavy rain but it is an original JACL member, contacted Jim Floriculture classes for students and is responsibility to the city of Gresham, The pollinator garden will be comprised being cultivated in our greenhouse as now quiet. The grass in disarray, similar Card to “look” at repairing Tsuru Island. our test garden. to build upon the Japanese American to one’s hair upon waking, is a bit like of native host plants for two speci c well as some non-native favorites that Be careful what you “look” at. The rebirth If anyone is interested in volunteering, legacy in the community. We foster nature waking after the winter. butter ies; the Monarch and the Painted pollinators love. is ourishing under Jim Card’s leader- you can nd them working away every sustainability through leadership, — Bill Peterson Lady. Habitat for pollinators is necessary If you want to learn more about cre- ship. Saturday from 9am - noon. Contact stewardship, education if we want to ensure their future. The ating your own pollinator garden, join After Tsuru Island was completed, Jim [email protected] for and volunteerism. Monarch butter y, for example, was Deb’s free class coming in May. more info.